Mural heating system



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J. D. PARKER.

MURAL HEATING SYSTEM.

No. 389,003. Patented Sept. 4, 1888.

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MURAL HEATlNG SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION-forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,003, dated Eleptember i, 1888.

Serial No. 236.059. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, JOHN D. PARKER, of Fort Riley, in the county of Davis and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Mural Heating System, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof,

in whichon line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

Figure l is a vertical section of a building heated according to my improved system. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on linear a; in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line 2 a, Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the views.

It is Well known that in brick, stone, and cement buildings the walls remain cold and damp under the various systems of heating now in use, thereby rendering the house uncomfortable and unhealthy.

The object of my invention is to obviate the discomforts and difficulties arising from cold and damp walls by heating the walls thenr selves, and by means of the Walls transmitting the greater portion of the required heat to the air in the building.

My invention consists in forming in the Walls series of fines or ducts communicating with a suitable furnace located in the lower part of the building, the fines being carried around the apartments in the difierent stories in the body of the wall, so that the heat generated by the furnace may be communicated to the wall and by the wall cornmnnicated to the air contained by the build- It also consists in the combination, with a system of fines, as described, and a furnace for supplying heated air thereto, of a series of grates placed in the apartments and adapted to regulate the temperature, the greater portion of the heat being supplied by the wall- .fiues, the remainder being furnished by the.

grates. By this means Inot only secure uniform heat throughout the entire season, but by the employment of grates l secure the required ventilation.

tending upwardly in floor,

In carrying out my'invention I place in the lower part of the house a furnace, A, inclosed in a compartment, B, arranged to receive air from the outside of the building, and in the walls of the building I form vertical fines a, for conveying the heated air from one story of the buildingv to another, or more horizontal fines, b, in the walls surrounding the apartments, the said fines exthe wall from a point near each floor to a point near the ceiling, or a suficient distance in a vertical direction to secure the heatingsurfacc required for each floor. The several fines a b are arranged in series, so that the heated air passes from the furnace to the horizontal does I) of the first and after passing entirely around the first door it passes of that floor, thence upward through the fine a, and so on throughout all of the stories of the building, the last due, a, upon the top door of the building being arranged to discharge through one or more openings into the apartments of the upper floor.

Upon each door is arranged a fire-place, C, communicating with the chimney G, formed in the wall outside of the flues b. fire-places a fire is built whenever the heat from the wall is insufiicient. Wherever doors or windows occur in the wall the fines b are carried around them, as shown at d in Fig. 1. Should a single flue b be insufiicient to warm any iioor, several snch fines may be employed. By means of my improvement the walls are always dry and Warm, and great and sudden changes of temperature are avoided.

it is obvious that I may employ steam-pipes in the horizontal and vertical fines. Therefore I do not limit or confine my invention to the exact form herein shown and described.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. In a mural heating system, the walls of a building providedwith aseries of vertical and horizontal hot-air flues communicating with each other and with a substantially as herein shown and described,

and I arrange one through the vertical fines (cto the second floor, thence through the line b hot-air chamber,

In these whereloy provision is made for heating the first floor with afurnace, snbstantiallyasheresaid walls, as and for the purpose set forth. 5 in shown and described.

2. In a mural heating system, the horizontal hot-air fiuesb in the walls surrounding the HN PARKER 5 several apartments, and the vertical hot-air \Vitnesses:

flues a, connecting the horizontal flues of the JOHN DAVIS,

several floors of a building and the flue in-the W. J. FRANKLIN. 

